"ALICIA! NO!" Clark screamed as he heard her final breath and felt the body of the only woman he had ever truly loved go limp in his arms. He turned towards Tim, eyes burning red with rage as he walked closer to the boy, using his heat vision to turn the sandstorm that Tim was creating into glass. He reached out and grabbed the meteor infected teen around his windpipe before slamming him against a wall.
"You killed her! WHY?!"
"She... deserved it... stupid...freak." He replied, his mouth contorting into a sadistic smile as he looked into Clark's eyes. Something inside the last son of Krypton seemed to break as he realized that the teen before him felt no remorse or sorrow for what he had done. A rage began to build inside him, unlike anything he had ever felt before and before he knew what had happened he felt his hands wrapping tighter around Tim's neck until, with a sickening crunch, it was over. Clark looked down in shock, allowing Tim's body to fall to the floor as he thought about what he had just done.
"I just killed a man." He whispered, as if unable to believe it to be true. There had been plenty of times when he had thought about killing a man, but he had never believed himself capable of such an act.
"I'm a monster."
"No my friend, you are a seeker of justice."
Slowly a man walked out of the shadows, wearing a white robe with a hood covering his face. He had a sword at a belt on his hip and Clark could see throwing knives on a second belt strapped across his chest.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Altair."
"What do you want with me?"
"I want to help you."
"No one can help me. I killed a man, and the woman I loved is dead. I have nothing to live for." He replied, knowing that his words rang true; even if he got rid of Tim's body people would always be suspicious of Alicia and him by extension. He didn't want his parents to suffer for his mistakes so he knew that he had to leave.
"What if I could give you something to live for?"
"What are you talking about?"
"I am talking about you becoming one of the order. Join us, become an assassin. Help those who cannot help themselves, and destroy those who would harm the innocent."